15-letter words containing a, g, d, i, r
- inside straight — Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
- insider dealing — dealing in company securities on a recognized stock exchange, with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss, by a person who has confidential information about the securities that, if generally known, would affect their price. Its practice by those connected with a company is illegal
- insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- kangaroo island — an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)
- kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- ladies' gallery — a gallery in the old House of Commons set aside for women spectators
- lady's-earrings — any of several plants having pendent flowers thought to resemble earrings, as the jewelweed or the fuchsia.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
- leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk
- lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
- library binding — a tough, durable cloth binding for books. Compare edition binding.
- lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
- like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
- linear ordering — an ordering that is reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive, and connected, as less than or equal to on the involved integers
- living standard — standard of living.
- loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
- logical address — virtual address
- lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
- lowland gorilla — the eastern lowland gorilla or western lowland gorilla. See under gorilla.
- mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
- mailing address — postal or delivery address
- managing editor — an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e.
- mandarin orange — mandarin (def 4).
- marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- marigold window — wheel window.
- microradiograph — an enlarged version of an image obtained by a form of radiography that reveals minute details
- mid-ocean ridge — any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
- midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
- miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
- mollier diagram — a graph showing the enthalpy of a substance as a function of its entropy when some physical property of the substance, as temperature or pressure, is kept at a specified constant value.
- nearsightedness — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- non-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
- north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
- old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
- oligodendroglia — Oligodendrocytes collectively.
- oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.